Federal Government on Wednesday granted citizenship to 43 foreigners who applied for Nigerian citizenship.
They were chosen from the 122 applicants presented to the Federal Executive Council by the Minister of Interior, Mr. Ababa Moro, who is also the chairman of the Advisory Council on Nigeria Citizenship.
Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said this at the end of the weekly FEC meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Maku, who was joined at the briefing by the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Usman, said nationals of Britain, United States of America, Lebanon, Russia, Egypt and Uruguay were among those granted Nigerian citizenship.
He said the FEC decided to step down the remaining 79 applications to give room for further screening.
Maku also said the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, briefed the meeting that the 2011 budget has performed 83 per cent.
He quoted Okonjo-Iweala as expressing the confidence that by the end of the month, the budget would have recorded higher percentage of performance.
He said the government was already working towards achieving 100 per cent performance for the 2012 budget.
The FEC also approved contracts totalling N15.4bn. The contracts include the design for the dredging of River Benue, building of five new power substations and the rehabilitation of Warri Seaport.
Maku said that because of the expected increase in power generation by the time new plants would have been commissioned later in the year, the government approved the building of the five substations in Kaduna, Enugu, Kogi, Ondo and Jigawa States and to be completed in 24 months.
The project, according to the minister, will cost $ 21,400,650.42, €5,148, 815, and N3, 675,786,105.87.
The council also approved the rehabilitation of AMS Terminal ‘B’ at Old Port, Warri, Delta State for the Ministry of Transport/Nigerian Ports Authority in favour of Messrs China Harbour Engineering Company Limited in the sum of N2,022,310,942.78 inclusive of all taxes with a completion period of nine months.
When completed, the project will meet the berthing requirements of shipping companies serving oil drilling and prospecting companies.
via Punch
P.S DON'T HATE ME BCOZ OF WHAT COMES OUT OF MY MOUTH, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT MYSELF, SO phyukOFF..
Posted: at 16-03-2012 03:58 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
sugaDaddy1forU at 16-03-2012 04:10 AM (12 years ago) (m)
This our country self, Do they let them marry our women for their resident permit first and then let them stay 5 more years before they can apply and be granted for citizenship as these foreigners do to us....
P.S DON'T HATE ME BCOZ OF WHAT COMES OUT OF MY MOUTH, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT MYSELF, SO phyukOFF..
Posted: at 16-03-2012 04:10 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
faithakwaugo at 16-03-2012 12:24 PM (12 years ago) (f)
This people are busy deporting Nigerians our Govt is giving citizenship what a twist! I hope they marry our ladies 4 yrs because that is the only way U get it. Our men are bullied and enslaved by these women just to get citizenship! UNICEF should ban countries from using marriage as a criteria for getting citizenship!
Posted: at 16-03-2012 12:24 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
kris9ice2u at 16-03-2012 01:42 PM (12 years ago) (m)
MAKE UNA CHECK THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS AND QUALIFICATIONS TOO BEFORE GIVING THEM OUR PRECIOUS CITIZENSHIP....BCOS NAIJA DON FULL WE NO NEED JUNKIES BUT PEOPLE WEY GO TO D PROGESS OF D COUNTRY
Posted: at 16-03-2012 01:42 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
kris9ice2u at 16-03-2012 01:43 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Quote from: kris9ice2u on 16-03-2012 01:42 PM
MAKE UNA CHECK THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS AND QUALIFICATIONS TOO BEFORE GIVING THEM OUR PRECIOUS CITIZENSHIP....BCOS NAIJA DON FULL WE NO NEED JUNKIES BUT PEOPLE WEY JOIN TO D PROGESS OF D COUNTRY
Posted: at 16-03-2012 01:43 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
Prophet of Terror and the Religion of Peace--Part I
Mohammed, Prophet of Islam is known as the "Apostle of Peace" by Muslims. Nothing can be further from the truth.
This article is just one of a series that I will be publishing regarding sadistic cruel nature of Prophet Mohammed. In this article I will prove once again, that Mohammed was in fact a terrorist, criminal and murderer whose entire life was based on victimizing innocents and indulging in mindless violence, carnage and massacre. He was a man who destroyed peace wherever he went, and in its place brought terror, carnage and death.
When Mohammed first started screaming from the rooftops that he alone had the divine word of God, the people of Mecca ignored him. However, when he started insulting and defaming the religion of the peace loving Meccans, they couldn't take it anymore and tried persuading him to stop. Mohammed the coward was too scared of the growing hostility against him and instead of calling upon his Allah to strike down the Meccans, he crept out one night and fled for his life.
Ever since that incident, Mohammed was determined to take revenge on the Meccans. He escaped to Medinah, which had a sizeable Jewish population, and started plotting his revenge with a small gang of criminals. This was the beginning of Mohammed's trail of violence, hatred and bloodshed that would soon destroy the once flourishing culture of Arabia. The story has been documented in detail by his biographers, - surprise raids on trade caravans and tribal settlements, the use of plunder thus obtained for recruiting an ever growing army of greedy desperados, assassinations of opponents, blackmail, expulsion and massacre of the Jews of Medinah, attack and enslavement of the Jews of Khayber, rape of women and children, sale of these victims after rape, trickery, treachery and bribery employed to their fullest extent to grow the numbers of his religion Islam which ironically was supposed to mean "Peace"! He organised no less than 86 expeditions, 26 of which he led himself.
The motives of the converts to Islam was never in any doubt. As D.S. Margoliouth states in his book Muhammad and the rise of Islam "Of any moralising or demoralising effect that Muhammad's teaching had upon his followers we cannot say with precision. When he was at the head of the Robber community, it is probable that the demoralising influence began to be felt; it was then that men who had never broken an oath learnt that they might evade their obligations, and that men to whom the blood of their clan had been as their own, began to shed it with impunity in the "cause of god". And that lying and treachery in the cause of Islam received divine approval. It was then too that Moslems became distinguished by the obscenity of their language. It was then too, that the coveting of goods and wives possessed by Non-muslims was avowed without discouragement from the Prophet...."
The details of all his criminal onslaughts in the form of battles and assasinations are chronicled in this article in a chronological manner. One should note that everytime the "Apostle of Peace" committed one of his criminal onslaughts, he always justified the crimes by quickly claiming a "divine revelation" which conveniently removed the blame from his bloodied hands. These convenient Suras are detailed immediately below the description of the incident.
Mohammed is a criminal, everybody knows that
Posted: at 16-03-2012 01:45 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
Prophet of Terror and the Religion of Peace--Part I
Mohammed, Prophet of Islam is known as the "Apostle of Peace" by Muslims. Nothing can be further from the truth.
This article is just one of a series that I will be publishing regarding sadistic cruel nature of Prophet Mohammed. In this article I will prove once again, that Mohammed was in fact a terrorist, criminal and murderer whose entire life was based on victimizing innocents and indulging in mindless violence, carnage and massacre. He was a man who destroyed peace wherever he went, and in its place brought terror, carnage and death.
When Mohammed first started screaming from the rooftops that he alone had the divine word of God, the people of Mecca ignored him. However, when he started insulting and defaming the religion of the peace loving Meccans, they couldn't take it anymore and tried persuading him to stop. Mohammed the coward was too scared of the growing hostility against him and instead of calling upon his Allah to strike down the Meccans, he crept out one night and fled for his life.
Ever since that incident, Mohammed was determined to take revenge on the Meccans. He escaped to Medinah, which had a sizeable Jewish population, and started plotting his revenge with a small gang of criminals. This was the beginning of Mohammed's trail of violence, hatred and bloodshed that would soon destroy the once flourishing culture of Arabia. The story has been documented in detail by his biographers, - surprise raids on trade caravans and tribal settlements, the use of plunder thus obtained for recruiting an ever growing army of greedy desperados, assassinations of opponents, blackmail, expulsion and massacre of the Jews of Medinah, attack and enslavement of the Jews of Khayber, rape of women and children, sale of these victims after rape, trickery, treachery and bribery employed to their fullest extent to grow the numbers of his religion Islam which ironically was supposed to mean "Peace"! He organised no less than 86 expeditions, 26 of which he led himself.
The motives of the converts to Islam was never in any doubt. As D.S. Margoliouth states in his book Muhammad and the rise of Islam "Of any moralising or demoralising effect that Muhammad's teaching had upon his followers we cannot say with precision. When he was at the head of the Robber community, it is probable that the demoralising influence began to be felt; it was then that men who had never broken an oath learnt that they might evade their obligations, and that men to whom the blood of their clan had been as their own, began to shed it with impunity in the "cause of god". And that lying and treachery in the cause of Islam received divine approval. It was then too that Moslems became distinguished by the obscenity of their language. It was then too, that the coveting of goods and wives possessed by Non-muslims was avowed without discouragement from the Prophet...."
The details of all his criminal onslaughts in the form of battles and assasinations are chronicled in this article in a chronological manner. One should note that everytime the "Apostle of Peace" committed one of his criminal onslaughts, he always justified the crimes by quickly claiming a "divine revelation" which conveniently removed the blame from his bloodied hands. These convenient Suras are detailed immediately below the description of the incident.
...... where them they? all ye violent loving brothers.. com out nd shw ur bombed face
IF U TINK D DEVIL IS A LIAR, THEN LET A GUY LIE TO U AND U WILL KNW DAT D DEVIL IS A LEANER ........
Posted: at 16-03-2012 01:52 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Prophet of Terror and the Religion of Peace--Part I
Mohammed, Prophet of Islam is known as the "Apostle of Peace" by Muslims. Nothing can be further from the truth.
This article is just one of a series that I will be publishing regarding sadistic cruel nature of Prophet Mohammed. In this article I will prove once again, that Mohammed was in fact a terrorist, criminal and murderer whose entire life was based on victimizing innocents and indulging in mindless violence, carnage and massacre. He was a man who destroyed peace wherever he went, and in its place brought terror, carnage and death.
When Mohammed first started screaming from the rooftops that he alone had the divine word of God, the people of Mecca ignored him. However, when he started insulting and defaming the religion of the peace loving Meccans, they couldn't take it anymore and tried persuading him to stop. Mohammed the coward was too scared of the growing hostility against him and instead of calling upon his Allah to strike down the Meccans, he crept out one night and fled for his life.
Ever since that incident, Mohammed was determined to take revenge on the Meccans. He escaped to Medinah, which had a sizeable Jewish population, and started plotting his revenge with a small gang of criminals. This was the beginning of Mohammed's trail of violence, hatred and bloodshed that would soon destroy the once flourishing culture of Arabia. The story has been documented in detail by his biographers, - surprise raids on trade caravans and tribal settlements, the use of plunder thus obtained for recruiting an ever growing army of greedy desperados, assassinations of opponents, blackmail, expulsion and massacre of the Jews of Medinah, attack and enslavement of the Jews of Khayber, rape of women and children, sale of these victims after rape, trickery, treachery and bribery employed to their fullest extent to grow the numbers of his religion Islam which ironically was supposed to mean "Peace"! He organised no less than 86 expeditions, 26 of which he led himself.
The motives of the converts to Islam was never in any doubt. As D.S. Margoliouth states in his book Muhammad and the rise of Islam "Of any moralising or demoralising effect that Muhammad's teaching had upon his followers we cannot say with precision. When he was at the head of the Robber community, it is probable that the demoralising influence began to be felt; it was then that men who had never broken an oath learnt that they might evade their obligations, and that men to whom the blood of their clan had been as their own, began to shed it with impunity in the "cause of god". And that lying and treachery in the cause of Islam received divine approval. It was then too that Moslems became distinguished by the obscenity of their language. It was then too, that the coveting of goods and wives possessed by Non-muslims was avowed without discouragement from the Prophet...."
The details of all his criminal onslaughts in the form of battles and assasinations are chronicled in this article in a chronological manner. One should note that everytime the "Apostle of Peace" committed one of his criminal onslaughts, he always justified the crimes by quickly claiming a "divine revelation" which conveniently removed the blame from his bloodied hands. These convenient Suras are detailed immediately below the description of the incident.
just watch and see they will all come out and show their fustration and anger on u.... dnt worry anyone of them who says bad about this comment will die a miserable death.......
IF U TINK D DEVIL IS A LIAR, THEN LET A GUY LIE TO U AND U WILL KNW DAT D DEVIL IS A LEANER ........
Posted: at 16-03-2012 01:54 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Bachelorette at 16-03-2012 02:01 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Quote from: verah on 16-03-2012 01:54 PM
just watch and see they will all come out and show their fustration and anger on u.... dnt worry anyone of them who says bad about this comment will die a miserable death.......
Amen my sister! I don dey wait for dem since...
I've always lived by 3 principles:
1. Honour ur God, 2. Love ur Family and 3. Defend your Country
Posted: at 16-03-2012 02:01 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
This people are busy deporting Nigerians our Govt is giving citizenship what a twist! I hope they marry our ladies 4 yrs because that is the only way U get it. Our men are bullied and enslaved by these women just to get citizenship! UNICEF should ban countries from using marriage as a criteria for getting citizenship!
Is not only through marriage u can get a citizenship of a country.there are many other ways like adoption and so on.
Posted: at 16-03-2012 02:06 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
naturalqueen at 16-03-2012 02:33 PM (12 years ago) (f)
In foreign countries they enslave and maltreat our men for them to get just green card. So if u must grant these people the citizenship of Nigeria, let there be a law that they will marry our women here. One is One....................... Chikina
Posted: at 16-03-2012 02:33 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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